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Newspaper
New Harmony Register
Location
New Harmony, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1874
Page
1
The Register outlines subscription costs then and annual rates for ads. It details advance payment, rearages, and discontinuance rules, plus column rates for local notices, quarter, half, and whole column ads with monthly and yearly prices.
An English narrator recounts a wild night at the Red Dragon in Chester, where a drunken confrontation with a rival indigo dealer leads to a staged melee with chairs, tables, and a hidden weapon. The altercation ends with the narrator victorious amid a room full of indigo merchants awaiting their turn.
A writer from Honolulu extols native Kanaka women noting their erect posture graceful bearing and curled hair with straw hats and wreaths. They wear modest dress covering neck and arms and freely move in wet conditions unlike civilized trousers or corseted fashion, asking if this is barbarism.
A NC farmer boasts of a notoriously contrary mule that resists harness and saddle, but devours any fodder while his owner once rode the beast for days. The column also retells a Columbia clergyman’s calm response to a kissing scene, a tale of an African monarch’s soda potion, and broader musings on books as solace and idle diversions.
The passage extols occupation as a cure for sorrow, urging humans to channel distress into daily duties. It argues grief becomes powerless when the soul remains active, turning dark waters into productive work and yielding fertile outcomes through steadfast duty. It condemns selfish indulgence and praises labor for communal joy.
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